TDRS Communicating Critical Data
As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA's broadest communication demands. Now into it's fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continue's to be communications excellence. The addition of the third generation of spacecraft will replenish the constellation and ensure that the critical lifeline of space-to-ground communication support will be available for many years to come.
Before TDRS, NASA relied on a web of ground-based tracking and communication stations located around the globe. These ground stations used large antennas to receive early transmissions from space.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Chris Meaney (HTSI)
- Michael Lentz (USRA)
- Chris Smith (HTSI)
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Video editor
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (HTSI)
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Narrator
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Producer
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (HTSI)
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Writers
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (HTSI)
- Sydney Cain (ASRC Research & Technology Solutions)
- Heather LG Snodgrass
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, January 9, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.